An excellent supplemental math text for late elementary school

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	• More Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School Louis Sachar Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004 - 112 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great for challenge seekers

This book is amazing. It entertains my kids with its funny and hard math questions. My son spent some time to solve them and we did some of them together. It is a nice book to read and it makes you think as well.

Lots of fun!

I love incorporating words with math! It makes it fun and interesting. I am not big on math (nor am I very good at it), but when you incorporate language, it makes it fun. I really found this enjoyable! You do neet time, paper, and a darn good eraser, but this was a blast! It has the same kind of stories as the other Wayside books, but it incorporates math problems to go with it. (BOYS + GIRLS = SILLY) And it's your job to figure out number substitutes for the letters. It's a lot of fun to do, and improves math skills and language skills. It's a blast!
It's harder than the first one, be warned! But it's also more fun and entertaining. I always used it as like a rainy day project, and I plan to do the same with my daughter.

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Kids and parents laugh

We read the Wayside School books together and the kids and parents all laugh. These stories are funny, silly, goofy, and enjoyable. We love them all. We only wish there were more as we have read them all. Recommended for those reluctant readers (and listeners) as well.

Great Book for a Math/Logic Wiz

I had this book when I was in fifth grade, and I absolutely loved it. I was already a big fan of the Wayside books, and I also liked math so these books were the perfect combination for me. I even remember working through the entire book multiple times. I especially loved the early problems wtih the convertion of basic math equations with letters to numbers like BOYS + BOYS = GIRLS and stuff like that. Now I am a physics major in college so I guess I came out pretty well. This book (and the first as well) is highly recommended for any kid who likes the Wayside books and also enjoys math/logic puzzles. Who knows, maybe this kid will be working with Schrodinger's equation in several years.

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An excellent supplemental math text for late elementary school

In my life as a mathematics educator at the college level, I have used alphametics to teach the fundamentals of arithmetic and have touted the value of doing that at professional conferences. Therefore, I was gratified to see alphametics used in this book to teach algebra to students in late elementary school.
An alphametic is an algebra problem where a few words make up a phrase and each letter represents a digit. When the letters are replaced by the digits, the result is a correct arithmetic problem. For example the first problem in this book is

boys
+ boys
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silly

Where the solution is

6721
6721
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13442

The first 39 problems are alphametics and the rest are word problems where the solution is derived via logic. There is a section of hints to the problems and complete solutions are included. This is an excellent supplemental math text for students in late elementary school.

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